Liberty Public School students in learning cafe classrooms work along pathways based on their mastery level. This artifact includes an example of a pre-assessment students take. Teachers use the data from these pre-assessments to provide students with a pathway that includes activities like creating videos and practicing skills. The artifact includes samples of various pathways students in the same group may be working on based on their needs.
Liberty Public School students in learning cafe classrooms use personalized plans to self-direct and pace their learning of math skills. Plans are organized against a continuum of math competency areas, and students work through a personalized plan for developing target skills associated with the intention. The plan asks students to:
Define in their own words what the skill is and means
Choose from a set of activities from a learning and practice playlists, including options to explore the skill through different modalities (videos, tutorials), try practice problems, self-assess again, play a “red card” to get immediate support from a teacher, or ask a friend
Apply the skill by making a video to explain it to others and then uploading it to SeeSaw (a learning management system)
Complete a mastery assessment online
Reflect on their learning, including identifying when and how they felt off track, strategies they used to get back on track, moments of engagement, and identifying means of engagement
Social emotional lesson pacing guide for prekindergarten through eighth grade, which includes lesson objectives and targeted calming strategies.
Savannah Bell, Personalized Learning Leader at Chicago Public Schools, describes how teachers and leaders at Tanner Elementary School adapted their social-emotional learning scope and sequence to focus on self-management skills.
This website shows the vision of the By Design program and its key outcomes and components.
This unit plan includes what students are learning in each class throughout the course of the project. It also includes standards covered for each content area and examples of evidence of learning developed by students.
This is a sample project guide for a seven-week interdisciplinary project in ELA, science, social studies, and health. The guide outlines the big question and content area driving questions and explains for students and parents how progress towards learning objectives (concepts and standards) will be assessed as well as the type of evidence that is expected to be produced.
A video from Tanner Elementary’s virtual Black History month assembly, which includes a read aloud, celebrations of Black social justice activists and celebrities, and identity stories from students.
Four examples of different virtual learning workshop session slide decks and accompanying plans prepared by the Department of Personalized Learning at Chicago Public Schools. Session topics include:
Learner Agency: Ownership and Self-Advocacy
SEL: Self-Management
Tailored Learning: Data Informed Instruction and Planning
Authentic Learning: Real-Life Context
A nine-month scope and sequence for personalized learning professional development for teachers, which includes differentiated pathways dependent upon the domain teachers choose to focus their learning on.
